How the Taiwanese Americans function in social organizations - a video documentation 01 introduction

Objectives:

1. Capture, preserve, and retell the stories of Taiwanese in USA. This is a historical obligation to many who are benefited from the cross-cultural experiences.
2. Gather, collect, and extend the value of the existing recording of the lives of Taiwanese Americans
3. Re-tell and make new senses of the stories through documentary films as well as the movies incorporating or inspired from the existing video clips.
4. Develop future professionals with Taiwanese American background and attributes to continue the contribution of the well beings of the Taiwanese Americans through video recording and film making.

Scopes and sub-fields:

1. Search for, gather, catalog, index, and interpret the existing recordings.
2. Re-organize the existing clips of video recording into documentary films that make educational senses
3. Record interviews of the related subjects and capture the interviews in new documentaries.
4. Derive ideas from the documentaries to form story lines for movie-making
5. Raise awareness of the value of documentaries and movies and raise funds to support continuous movie-making.
6. Utilize the products for developing future leaders of Taiwanese Americans in social organizations, communities, and the society at large.
7. The subjects could cover sub-topics such as The decisions to migrate and the mechanism of  migration; making a living; social lives; social organizations; advancing the career levels; balancing the multiple cultures involved, contributions to the society at large, etc.

By-products

1. Practicum for professional skills involved, including playwright, archiving, photographing and filming, film editing, movie directing, scheduling, equipment management; human resource management; financing; accounting; supervising; contract negotiating; sales of ideas and products;  ... etc.
2. Reference letters for all who are involved
3. Biography services using the skills acquired from the projects.   

21:48 2019/10/3 by Tony Su (as the draft to be further developed by Sarah Chang)

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The idea of documenting the lives of Taiwanese Americans must have been in the minds and the hearts of many Taiwanese Americans. There must have been many related video clips scattering around.

How could the pieces be strung together to form a big picture of how the Taiwanese survive and extend the value in the USA.

Meeting a young student majoring in cinema in college triggers the thoughts of actually merging the existing video clips and new filming to paint a big picture for extensive usages as well as serving as a practical field study that facilitate some young professionals' careers. (9:23 2019/10/3)